The National Rifle Association (NRA) is a favorite target of campus progressives.
One University of Kansas professor went so far in his attack that he tweeted for the death of NRA members’ kids. While a bit less distasteful in his statements, one professor makes some very wild accusations in his recent tirade...
Pennsylvania State U. Student Terence Ford has a low opinion of the push for “minimum wage” that leads to “minimum opportunity,” which is contributing to the fiscal struggles of his generation.
Plenty of Americans would be willing to work for less. But labor unions everywhere force employers to keep the employees they...
We recently covered one fraternity’s icy ‘torture’ of pledges that evoked Tarantino films.
More cases have come to light that have placed that particular fraternity under the microscope. Bloomberg’s David Glovin and John Hechinger file this report.
Two students at colleges in Virginia and Michigan have died since December after leaving Sigma Alpha...
Given New York University’s focus on programs such as LGBTQ workshops and Facebook “hook-up pages”, I am surprised one of the students interviewed didn’t suggest Libya for a spring break destination.
Fifteen New York University students recently asked about Benghazi said they didn’t know anything about the place, and two of the...
Never doubt the creativity of progressive professors.
One California genius has managed to tie a terror icon to his “World Food Systems” course. However, a savvy student found the concept “hard to swallow”.
Usama bin Laden was a freedom fighter and the U.S. is a “neocolonial power,” according to a California state university...
In a move toward greater transparency in drug research, Johnson & Johnson has signed pact with Yale University under which the company will share detailed clinical trial data from hundreds of drugs and other products with outside academic researchers.
The Wall Street Journal has a report detailing the agreement.
Under the unusual arrangement,...
It appears that the Obama Administration has brought both the left and right together on another issue besides dissatisfaction with Obamacare: Unhappiness with Common Core.
The Daily Caller’s Robby Soave files this report:
Another key backer of Common Core has reversed its earlier support for the national education standards: the New York State...
We have been covering the story of a University of North Carolina professor who was threatened with death after revealing athletes’ shockingly low reading levels.
The Huffington Post has her response to the threats:
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill reading specialist Mary Willingham struck back Thursday at critics regarding her research suggesting...
Conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza took time out from dealing with his legal wranglings centered on alleged campaign law violations to debate former domestic terrorist and current Obama supporter Bill Ayers.
The event was at Dartmouth Colege, and student Sandor Farkas has this report:
The debate, titled “America: Good or Bad?” started right away...
It looks like the craft beer degree is poised to become one of the most popular on college campuses.
We recently noted that the University of California – San Diego had scholarships available for their beer program. Now, three North Carolina community colleges have created”stackable” degree tracks for the fast-growing craft beer...
File this under “If you can’t beat them, join them.”
Some school officials try to prevent students from tweeting in class. But others are embracing social media as a learning tool, saying sites like Twitter can expand discussions beyond a classroom’s four walls.
Chris Lazarski teaches public policy at Wauwatosa West High School...
A federal judge has overturned an agency’s 2012 decision to revoke a massage school’s accreditation — and imposed a $429,000 financial penalty as well.
Interestingly, the approach the judge used in deciding the case could apply to any accreditor’s review of any college, and it raises issues much more broadly for higher...
It can be argued that students are tiring of the “diversity” emphasis on campuses when they organize parties that completely contradict today’s progressive messaging.
However, it appears that one Arizona fraternity took their counter-culture attitude one step too far:
Knowing they attend a university that has high standards when it comes to costume...
The this is Stanford’s version of a law professor, I think I would prefer to take my chances on new their electronic faculty.
A Stanford University law professor took the view that the Second Amendment permits strong gun control, telling the crowd that “restriction has to be at the core” of the...
Someday, the only college mascots left will be fluffy bunnies and cute kitties.
An, even then, they may become the target of a PETA campaign.
A small, Christian college in Watertown, Wis., has decided to toss its longtime “Crusaders” mascot, saying the word is too controversial.
“In light of our global outreach and more...
The following story is a cautionary tale for college budget experts trying to trim staff.
A Missouri university had a library preservation officer, who was let go several years ago. Now, their collection has millions of dollars in mold damage.
University of Missouri Libraries officials are trying to decide what to do with...
It looks like another campus black student group is issuing demands.
This time, it is at the University of Minnesota (hat-tip,
It looks like the math team of Common Core has done it again!
The latest nightmarishly awful Common Core math worksheet to bubble up courtesy of Twitter is for third graders, according to Twitchy.
Here it is, in all its surreal, subtly cruel glory:My 3rd grader’s #CommonCore math homework. Note that there are...
In an upcoming release, The Monuments Men, an unlikely World War II platoon rescues art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returns them to their owners.
It looks like they missed one, and it landed at the University of Oklahoma.
The Jewish Daily Forward reports some details on the history of the pa...
Last year, the University of Tennessee hosted a Sex Week so distasteful that it inspired law school student Brandon Whiteley to detail The Big Orange Screw.
Fox New’s Bill O’Reilly also had a report covering the controversy.
Student reporter Jessica Carr offers a description of some of this year’s events.
UT Sex Week has...
The plight of adjunct professors is such that it was recently asked, “Are adjunct professors the fast-food workers of the academic world?”
However, instead of addressing the “supply vs demand” issue at the core of this development, a new book from a longtime adjunct activist Keith Hoeller claims that working conditions for...
A new report says that textbook costs are so high hey are impacting the class choices students are making.
However, the textbook publishers dispute the findings. Inside Higher Ed’s Allie Grasgreen has this analysis:
Despite some recent improvement in textbook market options and transparency, rising prices continue to hinder students who, in the...
